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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (37150)	10/29/2000 10:34:33 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

How many Intel based machines have ECC cache? My guess is not many. Wrong guess. I believe they all do. THE WATSONYOUTH

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (37150)	10/29/2000 10:57:47 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

As far as I know, Sun has not fingered the supplier of the affected cache, merely saying they are no longer a supplier. Does anybody know their identity? Charles, doesn't matter, Sun "should have used protection." The type of errors that occur 99.999% (most) of the time from alpha particles, gamma rays or the like are soft, singe bit, and are correctable with the right kind of ECC. Cache ECC was used in mainframe machines as early as the 80s. Main memory ECC was used in mainframes in the 70s. As was pointed out, Intel based started with the Pentium II Xeon. Doesn't matter though, Sun has the mystique right now. Tony